Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

THE HERMETIC LAW SECRETLY AFFECTING RELATIONSHIPS

5 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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This short segment from a Josh Trent YouTube video introduces the concept of polarity in romantic relationships, framed through the Hermetic law of polarity and references to Aristotle. Trent describes how polarity can vanish after physical intimacy, creating cycles of pursuit and withdrawal (e.g., avoidant vs. anxious dynamics), and characterizes extreme polarity as potentially toxic.

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You ever feel like you're in a relationship and there's really amazing polarity. And then as soon as you make love or as soon as there's a physical moment between the two of you, the polarity dies. And it takes a really long time, maybe even fights or arguments to bring that polarity up. This is an example of a toxic relationship or a relationship that may have intense, severe polarity. The law of polarity through the hermetic system allows us to understand that men and women are uniquely beautiful and different because they are charged differently, because they have different polarity. Aristotle said that nature hates a vacuum. Well, it's the same thing with human beings in human relationships, in avoidant and secure and in avoidant and anxious relationships. You see this law of polarity happen on a consistent basis where one person will flee because they're afraid of love and one person will try to come in and grab the other person because they're afraid of losing that love.